“Even now I can feel my heart ache as I remember each of my 5 miscarriages, angels I will never get to hold. You just learn to dance in the rain while waiting on that rainbow!”
‘NEVER, EVER GIVE UP.’: After 5 miscarriages, rainbow baby was ‘worth every second of the wait’
‘She messaged me, ‘Don’t worry. I’ll be home in the morning.’: Mom tragically loses ‘beautiful’ daughter to heroin overdose
“I told my husband something was wrong. I finally laid down, only to be woken by my doorbell minutes later.”
‘I placed my son for adoption, married the birth father, and now have 2 more children who are relatives of my birth son. CRAZY.’: Young couple begin ‘beautiful’ open adoption after unexpected pregnancy
“I was 20, homeless, and spiraling out of control. I never imagined myself as ‘that girl’ who got pregnant. I’d known the father for a month and had no clear future ahead of me. ‘I’m so sorry I could not be ready for you,’ I kept telling my son. 48 hours. That is how long he was ours. I wanted this stranger in my stomach to have a chance at life.”
‘It was my birthday when she no longer knew my name or who I was.’
“I kiss her and say, ‘I love you.’ She is quiet. I stay close and wait. Nothing. I am afraid to move. Afraid I won’t hear her say her words to me.”
‘I didn’t care HOW I became a mom.’: Couple learns they’re pregnant 6 years after adopting first child
“I found myself sobbing on the bathroom floor. Everyone around me seemed to sneeze on command, get pregnant, and deliver a baby. But why couldn’t we?”
‘There is a fallout from death that extends beyond the first year. Please, don’t forget us in the second.’
“My grief is not gone. My grief did not end when the first 365 days came and went. My grief is still raw. It is still painful. And it is still very present.”
“Please don’t forget to show up when you can, reach out when you have a minute, and sit quietly with us in our grief, even if it’s now different.”
Stagehand Dad Builds His 7-year-old ‘Princess’ Fireworks-filled Disney DIY Bedroom
“She tells all her friends that I built it for her and that ‘I can do anything.’ That’s the best part.”
‘Sweet tears rolled down his cheeks. My heart completely burst.’: Marine groom overcome with emotion seeing his bride
“On that day, in that church, there was no black or white, there was just love, and man…. there was SO much of it.”
‘It’s bittersweet’: Rainbow baby inspires mom to create cherished art out of sentimental baby clothes
“To the parents involved, they mean so much more than just the art. They represent their journey through parenthood, sweet baby memories, and fleeting moments. A precious part of their lives that only they know.”
3-year-old who battled traumatic complications from FLU-like symptoms FINALLY heads home after 44 days
“I am still in shock that our little boy was sleeping on my lap, throwing the football, running around with the dog and just starting to show as being sick. And today he is on life support,” his mother wrote when the harrowing ordeal began.
This Nurse Calmed My Terrified 9-Year-Old Down From A Seizure With Kindness
“I never imagined they would actually do it, but a little while later, a child life specialist showed up at the door with sparkly polish.”
My 6-Year-Old’s ‘Growing Pains’ Turned Out To Be Cancerous Leg Tumors
“My mind started to spin. How could a boy be running and playing every day with that big of a tumor?”
‘I will love this baby unconditionally’: Family’s emotional plea for a birth mother to adopt to them
“My body isn’t allowing me this chance to do it on my own, although my heart has been ready for 6.5 years.”
Lovebirds Married 55 Years Recreate Night They First Met At Steak ‘N Shake In 1962
“He first called my friend and asked her for a date, but she said, ‘No thank you.’ Elmer then called me. I was annoyed and unsure about this Elmer guy, but I gave him a chance and said, ‘Okay, why not.’”
‘The most POWERFUL moment.’: 6-year-old son BAWLS his eyes out watching mom walk down the aisle
“My sweet, soulful oldest baby boy was sharing in on this moment so deeply, with us. Taking in every breath, right along with us!”
‘It took my breath away.’: Mom uses shattered mirror as beautiful lesson of love
“It’s not the breaking that matters, the how or why. What matters is how we choose to respond to the broken-ness.”
I Had A C-Section, And It Was Beautiful
“You aren’t having a baby for the 12 hours of labor ending with a beautiful natural birth. You are having a baby for the beautiful lifetime you get to spend loving him.”
‘Life is just too short.’: Lawyer mom gives up high-powered career to pursue painting ultrasounds
“Being an attorney paid the bills, but doing these baby ultrasound paintings feeds the soul.”
The Day I Finally Asked For Help (From A Mom Who Experienced Postpartum Depression)
“Experiencing postpartum depression didn’t mean I didn’t love my baby. I was asking for help BECAUSE I loved my baby.”
2-Pound Baby Who Defied NICU Odds Now 17-Pound ‘Ball Of Sass’
“Having a child in the NICU is terrifying. You don’t know what the road ahead holds as your tiny child fights to live.”
After loss, widower groom overcome with emotion seeing his 77-year-old bride walk down the aisle
“After supporting one another through the passing of each of their spouses, their friendship blossomed into a deep love.”
How A Routine Eye Exam I Almost Skipped Saved My Daughter’s Life
“It turns out the eyes are a window to the brain.”
Tan Skin Isn’t Worth It (Take It From Me, A Skin Cancer Survivor)
“Never ever did I think this would happen to me.”
‘The legacy would continue’: 3 generations of women wear diamond ring found on family farm
“One day near that old tire swing, I was playing in the dirt and I saw something that made me curious. It was a small, round piece of metal and as I cleared some soil around it, I realized it was a ring.”
Motherhood Is The Hardest Love You’ll Ever Know
“Today I went to a baby shower. Every mother there had their own heavy story to tell, had their own bags under their eyes packed with sleeplessness and exhaustion. But all they could say or write in the card is ‘you’re going to experience the greatest love you’ve ever known…’”